The moto vlogger Royal Jordanian began recording his rides as video postcards

Biker, RoyalJordanian, helps old man who trips crossing the street

A kind man, RoyalJordanian lives in London

Bikers don’t really have the best reputation. But RoyalJordanian (RJ) is on a mission to change all that. RJ, a kind man who lives in London, and shares his love and passion for bikes with the world.

He happened to be stopped at a red light wearing a helmet camera when an elderly man walking across the street tripped.

The biker immediately road up to the sidewalk to help the fallen man. After a moment to gaining his composure, the old man thanked the biker and walked off with another kind volunteer.

It was a perfect summer’s day, but the young man sitting on a sofa in front of the television was oblivious to the weather outside that July afternoon in London.

He was preoccupied with a more gloomy view – a glimpse of his own mortality given by his doctor if the 32-year-old didn’t drastically change his lifestyle.

Few who know of Royal Jordanian have any idea that 10 years ago the YouTube star was obese, suffering from stress, and burnt out from 18-hour workdays.

In what was part of his first press interview, RJ, as he is referred to by his legions of fans, spoke about the moment of realization that he could no longer indulge in scuba diving, a favorite pastime.

“I knew I was totally unhealthy,” he said. I’d just been away in Italy and I couldn’t get into a wetsuit, and I couldn’t dive. I thought, ‘I’ve got to start walking, and there’s a park nearby. It was 100 yards away, and I couldn’t even walk that far. I just couldn’t do it.

“Mentally and physically, I was completely and utterly devastated. I came back, I sat on the couch and I remember saying to myself: ‘A year from now, you’re going to do an enduro tour’. In one year, I got back into shape and I went and did that tour. And it saved my life.”

An enduro, for non-motorcyclists, is an off-road adventure of fierce physicality – the term comes from the word endurance – and riding them has been RJ’s passion, pretty much since he fell in love with bikes at the age of nine.

RJ focused rigidly on his goal, “dropped the chicken wings” and started walking, first 100 meters, then 200, then 90-plus kilometers a week. Twelve months later, he was in Spain and managed to endure a single day in the dirt on a Honda CRF450-X.

“I was shattered. I was dead,” he said. “It’s the first video on my channel, that day, and it’s called The Three Hills and you can hear my breathing when I went up that last hill. And I felt like I’d conquered the world, and I was back.”

RJ intends, meditative, as he skilfully lane-splits and filters through the capital’s traffic, and performs random acts of kindness, as well as high jinks like fist-bumping bus drivers or frightening pedestrians with an unexpected twist of a throaty throttle.

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